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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O’Carroll Senior correspondent

‘This is hell’: British widow ‘sick’ with worry after losing Brexit deportation appeal

Joyce Thomas, wearing blue glasses and a white shirt, stands outdoors before green foliage
Joyce Thomas’s case has raised concerns over Sweden’s hardline approach to the EU-UK withdrawal agreement. Photograph: Felix Andler

The 78-year-old British widow threatened with removal from Sweden after 21 years has said she has been left feeling sick with worry after being told she had lost an appeal against deportation in a growing row over the country’s handling of Brexit.

“I am in shock. I feel sick. An individual’s life is at stake at my age. It is hell. I have done nothing wrong. I don’t take anything from this country. I am self sufficient, I put money in this country, have no criminal record,” said Joyce Thomas from her home in Sweden on Thursday.

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